“When we talk about violence, we're talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don't lose sight of that. In general, my filmmaking is fairly body-oriented, because what you're photographing is people, bodies.” PeopleHumansBodyLosesTalkingViolenceDestructionSightAbstractFilmmakingHuman Body Author:David Cronenberg
“We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.” ThinkingSoulBodyHandsEyeEvilSpeakSinCuttingViolenceFeetEarsInjusticeCreatorTongueLustGuiltyThroatStomachAlliesFraudExcessTrapsGluttonySoul And BodyErring Author:Tertullian
“I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match.” BodyUsedEnjoyViolenceProtectMovedStrategyOneselfBoxingRetreatIntrigued Author:Nelson Mandela
“There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.” ChildrenStatesBodyFoundPovertyViolenceDrinkAbuseAddictionExtremesTerrorismToxicChild AbuseWarfareThreateningMundaneDomestic AbuseActs Of ViolenceOvereatingAbuse And Violence Author:Bell Hooks
“The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea that violence is a legitimate part of sexuality.” HumansIdeasBodySexViolenceAcceptanceSexualityPornographyHuman BodyObscene Author:Gloria Steinem
“Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.” SoulBodyHumanityViolenceWoundsCollectivesDiminishPreyPredator Book:Break No Bones: A Novel Source: Break No Bones: A Novel